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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 200

House vote house-114-2-200

No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?

Voting on a resolution

Official question: On Agreeing to the Resolution

Date: 5/18/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 5/18/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
200
Record identifier
house-114-2-200
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Agreeing to the Resolution Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 4909) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Passed.

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Result

Official result: Passed
Required threshold (best-effort)
Simple majority (of those voting)
Note: This is a best-effort interpretation based on the vote question text.
Threshold check (computed)
Appears met
Computed using Yea vs Nay among those voting (Yea+Nay = 405).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
28 members
Sanford D. Bishop
Democratic · GA-2
Vote: Not Voting
André Carson
Democratic · IN-7
Vote: Not Voting
Steve Cohen
Democratic · TN-9
Vote: Not Voting
Donna Edwards
Democrat · MD-4
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Jeff Fortenberry
Republican · NE-1
Vote: Not Voting
Al Green
Democratic · TX-9
Vote: Not Voting
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Republican · WA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
Steve King
Republican · IA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Doug LaMalfa
Republican · CA-1
Vote: Not Voting
John Lewis
Democrat · GA-5
Vote: Not Voting
Gregory W. Meeks
Democratic · NY-5
Vote: Not Voting
Gwen Moore
Democratic · WI-4
Vote: Not Voting
Bill Pascrell
Democrat · NJ-9
Vote: Not Voting
Ed Perlmutter
Democrat · CO-7
Vote: Not Voting
Cedric Richmond
Democrat · LA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Martha Roby
Republican · AL-2
Vote: Not Voting
Adam B. Schiff
Democratic · CA
Vote: Not Voting
Pete Sessions
Republican · TX-17
Vote: Not Voting
Brad Sherman
Democratic · CA-32
Vote: Not Voting
Lamar Smith
Republican · TX-21
Vote: Not Voting
Jackie Speier
Democrat · CA-14
Vote: Not Voting
Eric Swalwell
Democratic · CA-14
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Don Young
Republican · AK-0
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 5/18/2016Roll call: house-114-2-200